Chad Sharp's statement to Daniel English

<IF YOU GO>"Daniel: I cannot say that I can forgive you yet for killing my son and for hurting my other son and my daughter and the rest of my family, but I am going to keep praying for that.

"But you can rest knowing that you don't need the forgiveness of anybody in this room. Your forgiveness has been assured by a loving God.

"And I pray that if you have not asked, if you don't know him, that you will.

"Contrary to news reports, Terry was alive for about two minutes after your car slammed into his. He was aware of what had happened, and he pleaded with officer Jason Henry to help him out of the car. He could hear his family crying in pain all around him.

"He could see the horrific situation that you put him in. Of course, there was no way he could know that even if officer Henry could have gotten him out, his fate had already been determined.

"He could not have known that his ribs had been shattered into hundreds of pieces and that those pieces had fatally punctured his heart, his lungs and many of his vital organs countless times.

"He could not know that his life was about to tragically end much too soon, that he would not see his brother graduate high school or his sister grow up or even to make it just six days until New Year's Eve, when he planned to ask his girlfriend to marry him.

"For reasons that we cannot begin to understand, God has tied you to our family through this tragedy.

"For some reason all the seven times you were arrested for drinking and driving, all of the times in the past that for whatever reason the court system continued to allow you to manipulate justice until a life was not lost but taken.

"All of those things led us here today.

"Because of all these experiences you will now have a voice that comes from a perspective that gives you authenticity to help us bring about change.

"Terry could have been saved. You could have been saved from all this.

"I pray that as you begin to heal, God will move you to help us make those changes.

"Don't let this be the last time you're heard from. Don't let this define you. Please, for Terry's sake, don't let another life be stolen."</IF YOU GO>